You don’t have the time or ingredients to bake any of these? I still have a recipe for you. With just chocolate and water (seriously, only two ingredients), you can prepare The Best Chocolate Mousse of Your Life under 5 minutes.

The little tuxedo strawberries drew my attention of foodgawker, left me literally gawking!
What an ingenious idea for the Valentine’s day!
I would’t wanna eat them, just looks so cute…

20 - duygu on
February 11th, 2011

Is there a relation with love and chocolate?

21 - esha shrestha on
February 14th, 2011

Happy valentines day Cenk. Hope you have a wonderful day.

Beautiful photos, beautiful recipes and beautiful everything….

22 - Ivana on
February 14th, 2011

Made your brownies this weekend but without milk chocolate glaze: they were just perfect! I thought I might try to add finely chopped candied orange zest – I simply adore the combination of two aromas: bittersweet chocolate and orange – have you ever tried that in brownies?! Have a great V-day and thanks for the recipe! Your photos are delicious as well!

Ivana – Glad to hear you liked it. If you adore the combination of chocolate and orange then you have to try this: L’Orange.

24 - B5 on
February 16th, 2011

Wooow! I think I’m dying… I have only tried your brownies (your way-) a couple of time. Wonderful! But seeing all together just makes me want to cook at 23:53pm. This is dangerous! And so beautiful! You just make us happy Cenk! 🙂

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